Having a vehicle that can accelerate community-led efforts responsibly and systematically is critical to funding social change initiatives.
We serve as a fiscal sponsor and provide strategic incubation for time-limited projects, campaigns, and mission-driven enterprises, including donor collaboratives, giving circles, advocacy initiatives, and urgent response funds that do not have a 501(c)3 designation. We can efficiently facilitate grant monies to grantee organizations in the U.S. and abroad, and provide customizable back-office support, financial oversight, and legal expertise to projects.
Our Services
Financial Oversight
We ensure compliance with fundraising regulations, generate an online donation page, manage financial systems and reporting, oversee grant disbursements and payments, and support responsible fund management, including budgeting and required IRS filings.
Legal & Administration Management
We provide legal and administrative oversight, including supervision of project leadership, management of grant agreements, payroll and human resources, support the advisory board with communications and reporting, and maintenance of records required by law.
Grantmaking
We support responsible grantmaking by conducting due diligence, advising on giving strategies, identifying and vetting community-led partners, and managing processes for disbursement, monitoring, reporting, and evaluation.
Project Advisory Board Support
We prep, attend, or communicate with the Project’s advisory board for routine or special meetings and offer support in board management, strategy, foundation priorities, board development, and engagement.
Despite the altruistic intentions of philanthropy, the field continues to overlook or underfund leaders of color who have lived experience in the problems the sector is trying to solve. In an sector that purports its commitment to serving the underserved, the lack of diverse leadership and low levels of funding towards nonprofit leaders of color are clear indicators of the sector’s shortcomings.
We provide fiscal sponsorship services because of our commitment to changing this norm. Unless more leaders who are intimately involved in dealing with systemic change are in positions of power, philanthropy will continue to perpetuate inequity.
If you’re exploring how to set up and manage your giving, tell us more below. You can also review our FAQ and brochure. We review each submission based on alignment and capacity.
The role of a fiscal sponsor is to perform several different financial and administrative functions on behalf of projects. Including but not limited to taking on the responsibilities of administering and receiving charitable contributions. At Moore Philanthropy, we provide additional services to support projects in living out their missions and programming.
Please review our website and FAQs. If you believe that fiscal sponsorship is for you, we encourage you to fill out the form, answering all questions, and the Moore Philanthropy team will respond within 5 to 7 business days.
Domestic and international organizations and projects.
New, existing, and short term projects, and certain rapid response organizations.
Back-office administrative support and fiscal oversight – Bookkeeping, Human Resources, Strategy, Forecasting, Planning, and Grantmaking.
Each project/fund entity is different and there is no one size fits all approach. However, it is typically two weeks. In some cases, it may take longer but we want to ensure that potential projects have all they need to succeed and live out their programming and missions.
Yes, as long as they are contractors of the project/organization and not employees.
Unfortunately, no. There are several components we consider before partnering with a project. A few of those factors are mission and ethos alignment, meeting the standard for exemption status, and project acceleration. Of course, there are other considerations to becoming a project of Moore Philanthropy, and while we strive to partner all with projects that come to us, it may not be possible. However, we are always happy to recommend some of our colleagues that may be a better fit.